Nick, Tuesday, May 07, 2002, 4:01:09 PM, you wrote: >> What is your column type? Why you don't use ORDER BY your_date_column >> in the SELECT statement? It should work, but I can say you exactly >> because I don't know your table structure. The other causes of wrong >> result might be that something is not correct in your SQL statement.
NW> Right. here is the db schema: Feel free to berate me if I'm missing the NW> obvious :-) NW> CREATE TABLE iaadiplom_timetable NW> ( NW> id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, NW> module ENUM('0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5'), NW> week VARCHAR(255) NULL, NW> date DATE NOT NULL, NW> ektione VARCHAR(255) NULL, NW> title TEXT NULL, NW> teacher_id INT NULL, NW> PRIMARY KEY(id) NW> ) NW> and here is my select: NW> $qry="SELECT id, module, week, "; NW> $qry.="DATE_FORMAT(date, \"%d %m %Y\") as date, "; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The result of DATE_FORMAT() function is a string. So, in ORDER BY clause is used string 'date'. That is why you get "wrong" sorting. Use another alias for your date column, it should help you, i.e.: $qry="SELECT id, module, week, "; $qry.="DATE_FORMAT(date, \"%d %m %Y\") as mydate, "; [skip] $qry.="ORDER BY date ASC"; NW> $qry.="ektione, title, teacher_id "; NW> $qry.="FROM $this->table "; NW> $qry.="WHERE module = '$module' "; NW> $qry.="ORDER BY date ASC"; NW> Thanks very much for the help! -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Victoria Reznichenko / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php